Space Number:  94

Area: North  

Within Building Number: 52 

Phasing:
Mellaart Level: Unassigned at present 

Hodder Level: North.G 

Additional Phase Info: Central group of related buildings based on combination of stratigraphy (abutting relationships) and lithics assemblage dominated by East Gollu dag bifaces and percussion blades. Lying at the surface of the mound, Sp.94 of B.52 represents the mid phase of the B.52 sequence. Excavated to the latest phase of occupation with NFE (not further excavated). Prior to the introduction of the Hodder phases Sp.94 of B.521 had been allocated to Mellaart Level VI - V very crudely based on comparison of the material assemblage but Mellaart levels of buildings/spaces NOT excavated in the 1960s have been removed to allow an independent assessment on phasing. NB/Work in progress. Correct as of date entered or modified. 

Description:
Defined in 1993-94 Scrape to North of East Mound.
Incorporated in 4040. Space 94 is the central room of B52 comunicating with S93 through a possible apin the wall 2032, but solid evidences for that we do not have due to the collapse of wall 2032.
It also communicates with space 254 through crawl hole 2181.
The extent of S94 towards east is unknown for the moment since B51 was built on top of it covering the flor 2176. We can only estimate that it is probably as large as B51 since the burnt wall south of this seams to have been the limit of our space and it extends all the way behind B51. We can't distinguish internal phases within S94.
Southern end of S94 is narrower than the rest due to the presence of the wall 2180 and post 2178. The area is occupied by raised (high) patform 2177, with bench 2021 on its northern side. The location of the bench on the side of the platform makes it asymetrical, having the northern side a lot higher than the southern one.
Bench is lined with multiple layers of plaster that cover the walls as well.. It had three horn cores fixed on the northern side, which were preserved in the bench clay, despite the breaking and collapse of it.
In the western wall 2106, bucranium 2175 was set into a niche-like space , being fixed with the wall plaster that comes right against it. Under the bucranium probably on the plaster of the north-western platform 2174, against the wall, a pair of goat horns was found.
On the same wall north from the bucranium, there is a pillar 2172, surrounded by the layers of plaster that cover the wall.
Wall 2032 is a partition wall between S93 and S94, lined with multiple layers of plaster that go arround the post 2173 at the eastern end.
Together posts 2173 and 2178 seem to make a division wihin S94, divisionby those who built B51, precisely.
The disuse o B52, judgeing from the evidences within S94 , seems to have been an accidentalfire with all the construction collapsing inside, but with subsequent activity as te building b51 and the deliberate placement of horns cluster 10281 on top of the building collapse debris.

Space fully excavated BT 11/08/2017 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 11

Conservation Recorded: Yes
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